Xu Zhimo was a Chinese romantic poet who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language.
11 Facts About Xu Zhimo
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Xu Zhimo is considered one of the most important figures of modern Chinese poetry.
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Xu Zhimo is best known as Xu Zhimo, while he was born Xu Zhangxu with the courtesy name Yousen.
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Xu Zhimo married Zhang Youyi in 1915 and proceeded to attend Peiyang University in 1916 to study law.
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Xu Zhimo left New York in 1921, having found the US "intolerable", to go study in England at King's College, Cambridge, where he fell in love with English Romantic poetry like that of Keats and Shelley.
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Xu Zhimo was influenced by the French romantic and symbolist poets, some of whose works he translated into Chinese.
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Xu Zhimo worked as an editor and professor at several schools before his death on 19 November 1931, dying in a plane crash near Jinan and Tai'an, Shandong while flying on a Stinson Detroiter from Nanjing to Beijing.
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Xu Zhimo left behind four collections of verse and several volumes of translations from various languages.
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Xu Zhimo was widowed when Xu died in an airplane crash.
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Xu Zhimo boarded a China Airways Federal Stinson Detroiter, an aircraft contracted by Chunghwa Post to deliver airmail on the Nanjing-Beijing route.
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Xu Zhimo, who suffered from fatal cerebral trauma and several cuts on his body, was killed instantly as well as one of the two pilots.